May 12, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Bees Wintered Well. 



I put 69 colonies in the cellar Dec. 4, and 

 April 5 took out 68 colonies, only one dead. 

 I left 15 colonies outdoors, and one of them 

 died, leaving 14. I have the bottoms nailed 

 on all of my hives, with a -'s-inch entrance, 

 which I leave open in the cellar. Out-of- 

 doors I contract from 3 to :! inches. I put 

 burlap and paper on all of my hives, and the 

 bees seemed to do well. Those I had in the cel- 

 lar seem to be the strongest now. The bees 

 that were wintered out-of-doors, about one- 

 third of them are dead. I am the only one 

 that puts them in the cellar. My cellar is 

 12x12x7 feet, and we had our fruit, vegetables, 

 and 69 colonies of bees in it. I had one neigh- 

 bor who had 56 colonies in the fall, and now 

 has 22; another had 102, and now has 56: 

 another had 50, and now has 44 ; the rest of 

 my neighbors have lost from 2.t to 50 percent. 

 It has been bad for my bees since I took them 

 out of the cellar — too cold. We had 2 inches 

 of snow April 20, and it is cold to-day. 



E. B. Pritchett. 



Warren Co., Iowa, April 20. 



Heavy Loss in Wintepinjj. 



I wrote the forepart of the winter and made 

 an estimate of what I thought the percentage 

 of loss of bees would be in this section. I 

 think I said it would be about 75 percent, but 

 as nearly as I can learn I did not place it high 

 enough. By what I can learn, some have lost 

 all their bees, others a third, but 1 don't score 

 with either. I started with 1S5 hives full of 

 bees and honey. March 80 I had 185 hives 

 full of honey, three of which had about a 

 quart each of live bees in them. I should 

 think there was 4000 or 5000 pounds of honey. 

 Most of it looks like slale molasfes. Tester- 

 day was the first day since last October that 

 bees could fly and get back to their hives. I 

 put part of my bees into the cellar and left 

 part of them on the summer stands. Part 

 were packed in chaff-lined hives, and part 

 were not, with no difference as I can see. 



C. M. Lincoln. 



Bennington Co., Vt., March 23. 



Prefers Ready-Made Hives. 



In reply to the letter of William W. .Jacobs, 

 I will say that I have tried the plan of mak- 

 ing ray own hives, but found out that it cost 

 me more to buy the lumber and hire men to 

 make them than they cost me at the factory ; 

 and then they would not be cut and fitted like 

 the hives we get at the factory. 



I have 70 colonies of bees. I needed some 

 hives, so I bought 15 10-frame dovetailed 

 hives with 2 supers for each hive, making 30 

 supers — hives and supers all complete except- 

 ing sections — for the sum of SH1..50. The 

 hives were cut very nicely, and of good ma- 

 terial. I know that I could not get the lum- 

 ber and nails and everythint; that is needed, 

 and hire the work done, and have the lumber 

 spoiled and the hives not half i-ut for that 

 price. My time is worth $3.00 per day to me, 

 and I would rather get them cut where we 

 can get it done right. The men who run bee- 

 hive factories are at big expense for machin- 

 ery, they also pay big wages to experts to 

 handle stock and machinery, and we all have 

 to live and let live, also. I got good soft pine 

 in those hives. C. W. Blakly. 



Mercer Co., 111., April 1". 



Cold Winter and Loss of Bees. 



The past was a very cold winter here, as it 

 was 35 degrees below zero, and the ground 

 was frozen nearly 5 feet. The most snow we 

 had was 6 inches. On Feb. 6 it was so warm 

 that it melted all the snow, and the bees were 

 having a great flight; the next morning it 

 was 30 degrees below zero. This change in 

 the weather is what killed my bees, with 

 plenty of honey left, so I sold the honey from 



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